AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Hard drive fixed and properly mounted. In the end, it was so simple.

adventures in building my own pc part 5: two days ago my cpu fan started making a noise like something was touching it. nothing is touching it. help. when i stop the fan with my finger it stops, so i know it's not the heatsink or anything - it's the fan itself. it's still spinning and everything's still cool, it's just making the most obnoxious noise on and off.

I'm thinking the fan is probably defective. The fan on my old PSU did the same thing (made a terrible noise like it was hitting a wire or something) before it died.

i threatened to replace it and it stopped, i'll probably replace it anyway. some research on similar issues gave me the same impression. annoying because this computer isn't even a month old.

can anyone give me suggestions on a decent headset? i've had a pulsewave for probably going on six years now that when it was less than a year old i stepped on it and broke one of the earcups off and i'm finally just...tired of duct taping it back on. it still works i'm just thinking maybe i should give it up and buy a new set. they cost me about $60 and i really liked them - i'm not much of an audiophile so the best sound isn't really that important. i just want 'em to sound decent and have a decent mic on them and be comfortable and not cost me an arm and a leg ($100). so something comparable to the pulsewave would be nice.

So I bumped a cable and my monitor started blinking every color under the sun. This was the display from the computer for that specific cable - my other monitor was displaying just fine with no issues, and the weird one was able to switch feeds to HDMI with no problems. I reset the computer and unplugged/replugged the cable and it works fine again.

No idea what I did.

headphones+mic>headset. I have 50$ headphones that sound daisies decent and a 10$ clip-on mic that's serviceable (although I just destroyed the cable with my desk chair). For 100$ you could get some pretty swell stuff.

Well, I took the side off the case and Guild Wars ran just fine. GPU was about 62-64 degrees while the CPU stayed around 57 degrees.

Now to test Skyrim.

Edit: Skyrim had the GPU at about the same temperature but the CPU was at 46 degrees. No crashes. I'm thinking I just need more fans on this thing.

we are looking to getting seperate mics but we have an issue in that both our pcs are in the same room about 6ft apart so we are picked up on one anothers' mics. we've tried all the cheap options (clip on mics, etc,) and so far nothing's worked well. any other specialised mics are gonna be more expensive than we want to deal with right now, so a headset is the the best option we have right now.

Any one savvy with HTML/CSS? This (seemingly simple) question stumped my teacher and google isn't helping much either:

How do you make a table stay square and scale with window size? Using

sort of works but then it doesn't scale with window height.

Went to Walmart to buy a DVI-D cable. Asked one of the employees where they were at.

"...uh, one second."

He goes to check with his coworker, and comes back.

"We... don't know what that is."

gg, at least they admitted to it

>Walmart
>Employees that know what they're doing

Pick one

I'm only kidding, don't kill me if you happen to work at walmart.

Not like it's their fault, Walmart should give them the proper training.

I don't know HTML/CSS myself and I don't know how experienced you are with programming, so forgive me if this is insultingly basic and useless advice, but you might need to specifically create an event listener or whatever the languages uses and then tell it to resize itself through that. I don't know how much backend stuff html/css handles for you though.

I think I'd need to use Javascript to do something like that, and we haven't been taught that yet. I find it weird that css doesn't seem to have a built in way to preserve aspect ratios though.

After some more searching though, I discovered that even the top answers on stack overflow only scale with width, so I'm giving up on this for now.

Okay, so I got a new motherboard and processor but after that, my computer is almost always freezing and crashing. Any idea what I might need to stop that? I'm losing my patience rather quickly and I'm really tempted to smash it but I think I'd rather get the parts I need first.

I've been thinking that maybe I need more RAM for the computer to handle the upgraded processor? I'm at 4GB ram and the processor is an AMD FX 6350.